Wow, Donald Trump is so toxic that they need this guy to save their asses:
Former President George W. Bush is lending himself to efforts to boost vulnerable GOP senators whose reelection campaigns have been complicated by Donald Trump at the top of the ticket.
Bush has hosted fundraisers for Sens. John McCain (Ariz.) and Kelly Ayotte (N.H.) since Trump became the party's presumptive nominee last month, The New York Times reports.He will also appear at a fundraiser for Sen. Roy Blunt (Mo.) next week, with similar events in the works for Sens. Ron Johnson (Wis.) and Rob Portman (Ohio), according to the report.
Those are among the most vulnerable Senate seats, and the party is defending far more seats than Democrats.
Yes, this is how far the GOP has fallen that they need Dubya to come back and help them, because he’s popular again, compared to Trump that is:
Few candidates were clamoring for his help. Outside of helping his brother and his nephew, George P. Bush, the Texas land commissioner, and his friend Ed Gillespie in a Virginia Senate race, Mr. Bush has largely stayed away from campaigns since returning to Texas in 2009, writing only a handful of personal checks for candidates who visited his Dallas office.
But 47 percent of people nationally view him favorably now, according to a February poll from Quinnipiac University. (Mr. Trump’s favorability was at 31 percent in a June 15 national poll from Bloomberg Politics.)
Further, Mr. Bush is highly popular among Republicans, especially the party elites who are big campaign donors. The hosts listed on the invitations for the fund-raisers for Mr. McCain and Mr. Blunt include some of the country’s leading Republican contributors who have recoiled from Mr. Trump’s candidacy.
In retirement, unlike former President Bill Clinton, Mr. Bush does not devour daily political developments and intrigue, and largely shuns television news coverage. But Mr. Trump has presented a message starkly different from the one offered by Mr. Bush, especially on terrorism and racial tensions.
At a debate in February, Mr. Trump said that Mr. Bush’s administration “lied” about intelligence to justify the war in Iraq. And he excoriated Mr. Bush for the Sept. 11 attacks.
“The World Trade Center came down during the reign of George Bush, right? I mean, it came down,” Mr. Trump said at a news conference. “We weren’t safe.”
The good ol’ days of 9/11 fear mongering are over and if this is the best the GOP can do, then they’re even more screwed than we thought. But lets not let Dubya dupe the voters into getting these clowns get re-elected. Click below to donate and get involved in these Democrats’ campaigns: